Rail-joint fastener



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RAIL JOINT FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED APR. 1. 1922.

1 ,425,683. Patentd Aug. E5,

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UNITED S TES P M GEL SAMUEL PALPP, or LOWELLVILLE. oHro;

' Application filed April 1,

T 0 (all: whom it mag concern.

Be it known that I, SAMUEL PAPr,a citizen of the United States, residing at Lowelle ville, in the county of Mahoning and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joint Fasteners,

. plate elements 15 and'16 project upwardly of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to rail joints, hav-" ing for an object to provide a novel-and improved rail joining means whicheliminates the use of bolts, which latter as is well known suffer from the disadvantage of loosening under the vibration due to coin tinned travel of trains on the tracks.

For further comprehension of the inven tion, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth- Fig. 1 of the drawings is a perspective view showing my improved rail joint as ap plied to a pair of rail ends.

F 2 is a detail perspective "iew of one of the joint elements. i I

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view show-- ing a modified form of the invention, thisview being taken on the line 33of Fig. 4.1 3O

Fig. 4 is a transverse verticalsectional view taken on the line 4- 4 of 3.

In the drawings the reference numeral 10 indicates a pair of rail ends to which my device is applied. This device comprises a pair of members which engage eachside of the rails and which are in the main of similar shape. These members comprise the .flat base elements, 11 and 12 respectively,- Which engage under the rail and from the outer edges of which inclined members .13 and 14 extend inwardly over the base flanges of the rail in contact therewith. From the inner edges of these members integral fish-' in contact with the webof the rail.

-These two members, as just described, which form the respective halves of a chair forthe rail, are locked together by engagement of the inner edge portions of the'base elements 11 and 12 with one another. To this end the element. 11 is formed with a hooked lateral projection 17 engaging under. a complementary projection 18 on thebase element 12.

be positioned together and-the rail ends in- RAIL-JOINT FASTENER.

The device is adapted to be secured to the Specification or Letters-Patent. l git t d A 15 v tie, indicated at 20, byv means of spikes 21 whose heads engage overthe inclined parts 13, 14. To cause'said spikes to hold the two 7 members against longitudinal displacement, vertical grooves or notches 22 are formed in i the sides of the members in which the spikes are engaged. I I j v VVhen the device is applied to a new track, just being laid, the two members-can I I serted therebetween. -When a single railjis to be removed one. of the members must be member. 1

tical element 15 is 'fformed-pear opposite ends with books 25, 26 which project through moved longitudinally until its hooked part I 1s freedfrom the hooked-part-ofthe other slots 24 inthewebs ofthe rail endsfand which are vertically spaced. The other vertical element 16- is formed with a pair I of recesses 27, 28 which enter'longitudinally I from one end and" receive the said hooks, the parts beingso arranged that theupper' 11001526 is received'i'n the longer recess 28 so as not to weaken the, member. Ina plyingthismodified form of the device the member carrying the hooks is first, engaged with the rail, and the other member is then inserted longitudinally into position until the hooks engage in the proper elements formed in the inner ends of the recesses, afterwhi'chthe device is spikedto the tie.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters PatentoftheUnited State's as'followsz. r

.1A rail joint comprising a pair ofmembers engaging opposite sides of the rail and having base elements extending-under the f rail and interlocked together, and hooked elements on onemember projectingthrough "slots in the railfland engaginginv retaining recesses? in'the other member said. recesses member.

In testimony whereof'Ihave alfixed my: signatnref m ;,simem 4 v 

